On Tuesday 07 August 2007 05:22, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have the (perhaps crazy) desire to, from a script, remount a > filesystem and read only and fsck it. The irritating thing is that > e2fsck requires an interactive authorization (even under -f) unless your > attempting this on the root filesystem. I would just script around this > but e2fsck calls isatty() just to thwart such attempts. Does anyone > know of a means around this with out modifying the sources? > > Thanks, > > -J > > --
Have you tried the program 'expect' to do your script? It should be able to deal with that confirmation prompt. (Not that I am recommending doing so, but if you know what you're doing with those fscks, expect should do the trick). Thanks, Mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
